Seib & Wessel: GOP Regroups After Shutdown

10/4/2013 11:20AM

The GOP got more of the blame for the government shutdown and made no progress stopping Obamacare, but the party now has an opportunity to put the focus back on spending, where it has had some success in the past. WSJ’s Patrick O’Connor and Carol E. Lee explain.

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

the ... sell week ago we said in what would there be a shutdown well we got that question answered yes to the shutdown of the question today is um do I we got a shutdown and I guess it does not question my mind who's in the driver's seat now Republicans or Democrats ... it seems to me that ... Republicans may be faring out they can do much about Obamacare ... and it is time for a shift in strategy ... yet I think you know ... the Republicans probably lost the broader war or politics is your point sent them another were in the shutdown actually have a little delever and I think the key things that John Bean is trying to do this trend figure out how to get the White House is able to actually negotiate with him on something related to the budget ... unhappy appease the Conservatives and started this Feinstein in the one still driving it ... has to face meeting with mutually exclusive ... that Salinas challenge right now he actually has more leverage today he did on Monday ... why did it because ... the White House that it is both you cause this but ... will it go on to tell you feel that he ... the anger of the public ... I think you know I think they have lost the politics of this point but a guy dating Republicans ... but the lights and inside the Emerson outside ... outside and I think they were to concede that they probably lost on this one what it's done is that it's now brought the Democrats to do something that or that ... it's ... potentially a force Democrats to something that they have so far so that they won't do which was negotiated over ... a stock that I didn't know or the debt sale I go here's to this day I think you do when now for Republicans is to shift the debate with Obamacare court spending where they've actually frankly had some success in the past ... and where they can probably extract more because what has been lost here is that Democrats hate the level of spending that's in the spending bill that they've decided not to pass ... but don't live with that and Republicans have not ... Mr Green said ... at the White House ... will not take yes for an answer and another unfair way take yes for an answer ... that's not to please the Ted Cruz we are still things Obamacare Supreme an issue ... with the law to Republicans who think spending is a bigger issue in the one where they have more room to to to win he has yet to discuss for months now I mean the discussion has moved in Republicans favor three years since the Republicans that ... house ... prom is they don't know this you know state to declare victory and move on and I think that's been the top ... some Republicans talked about Grover Norquist said we should do Credit victory and and this the bed this step towards focusing on spending or stretch to ... say on Obamacare Sunday at the White House is not ... to can it be too happy about it in answering this year restoration specialists to say ... that part of the reason why they're still gleeful about the politics of this is because Republicans on late two thousand eleven are focusing on Sunday night ObamaCare's close to ... spending issues that really resonated people really care about the once they start to make that shift ... idle think the president's can be able to hold his position a ... move refusing to negotiate in making and an casting Republicans as being ... entirely unreasonably ... so your point about how I actually assets if happens ... to overtime um John dinners leverage actually increases when the sentences that did not ObamaCare yet the question is how do they move to that point and ... you know it's can be kind of abrupt shift and probably ones can lose a lot of this conservative members and you know this is not the head can be had ... for the last couple weeks appease the conservative wing of the party now in a piece on me the concern is our ally in the relations of the plays out ... but that additional demand does not work on Obamacare me like it's simple yet you don't have enough votes to do ... in the fact that did ... the exchanges are overwhelmed because so many people wanna sign up millions of people going to exchanges ... somebody didn't believe the Republican rhetoric that this will ... cause cancer